LUNA The Shadow Dust
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Adventure indie game LUNA The Shadow Dust launched in 2020 from developer lantern-studio and publisher coconut-island-games. It has 1,661 Steam reviews with 90% positive sentiment, a very positive signal, and an initial $19.99 price.
Overview
LUNA The Shadow Dust is a 2020 Adventure game developed by Lantern Studio and published by Coconut Island Games. On Steam it has gathered 1,337 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Lantern Studio with publisher Coconut Island Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 68,000 to 159,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, LUNA The Shadow Dust can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,337
Positive
90%
Steam appid
465100
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.068K to 159K
units (median: 114K)
≈ $779K to $1.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_90% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for LUNA The Shadow Dust at roughly 68,000 to 159,000 copies, with a median around 114,000, derived from its 1,337 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.3M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
8 observed days · window low $13.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $13.99 to $13.99. The tracked-window low was $13.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has LUNA The Shadow Dust sold?
- indielist estimates LUNA The Shadow Dust has sold between 68,187 and 159,103 units (median 113,645), derived from its 1,337 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed LUNA The Shadow Dust?
- LUNA The Shadow Dust was developed by Lantern Studio and published by Coconut Island Games.
- Who published LUNA The Shadow Dust?
- LUNA The Shadow Dust was published by Coconut Island Games, developed by Lantern Studio. See Coconut Island Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was LUNA The Shadow Dust released?
- LUNA The Shadow Dust was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does LUNA The Shadow Dust have on Steam?
- LUNA The Shadow Dust has 1,337 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
- Is LUNA The Shadow Dust worth playing?
- Steam players rate LUNA The Shadow Dust 90% positive across 1,337 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like LUNA The Shadow Dust can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Lantern Studio's other releases and Coconut Island Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where LUNA The Shadow Dust sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same LUNA The Shadow Dust page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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